Take a look at this number plate!

This is a discussion on Take a look at this number plate! within Street Experiences, part of the Buckle Up category; Originally Posted by ad3952n
Dear all, Saw this Blue Bus at Ghaziabad today afternoon while coming to Noida. Is it ...

Any info guys? My friend is interested getting a similar plate and I'm holding him.

If one goes through Rule 50 & 51 of the motor vehicles act then it is clear that the Act requires all the alphabets and numerals to be displayed at the specified size (65 mm height for cars). Therefore the plate which you are enquiring about is technically illegal as the Registering state (KL) and Rto code are appearing in smaller font than prescribed.

Saw this Innova being driven quite very recklessly towards Kovalam (a beach resort area) in Trivandrum. It had red plastic board without any inscription on both the front and back. No lettering or numerals or symbols of any kind. Saw a very small printed paper stuck when I had it right in front of me at a traffic block. Is this legal even if it is a VIP on board? I could make out that it was a hired vehicle by the markings on the rear window. How would we even make a complaint if there was a hit and run?

Saw this Innova being driven quite very recklessly towards Kovalam (a beach resort area) in Trivandrum. [...] Saw a very small printed paper stuck when I had it right in front of me at a traffic block.

That printed paper is not even the complete number; KL-01-AW-65 is a Hero Honda Glamour apparently.

You could try emailing the pic to tc@keralamvd.gov.in, but they've hounded out the man who could have done something about it.

I think this is a welcome move to highlight the rampant misuse of number plate rules. Most of the violations that is highlighted in this thread can also be uploaded to the FB page suggested in the article.

I was wondering why can't the RTO give out the number plates during the registration of vehicles iteself. If anyone found not using that or a number plate similar to the RTO issue, should be fined heavily.

My point is, even if the owner has not done this on purpose, is ignorance an excuse?!

Well - the situation is similar to most of the "premix cement trucks" i see on the road here in Bangalore. The rear number plate would be masked by cement and obviously it would be impossible for anybody to gauge the registration number from the rear.

These trucks compete with the water tankers for the crown of the most rashly driven heavy vehicles on the city roads (the black smoke belching BPO/IT Joe cab is the undisputed king in the LMV segment).

I have never seen any cop stop a cement mixer truck for having obscured number plates. Clicked this one just yesterday in my office complex.